Ouch: Anil Dash on "white families"

[Recursion]

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/593589614092357633

If Asian Americans talked about white Americans the way whites talk about black folks, they'd bring back the Exclusion Act.

We could point at how white Americans compare to Asian Americans in violence, in education, in income. We could call your kids thugs.

I am glad that white Americans don't have to endure the daily dehumanization that black people do; nobody should have to.

But when I hear a white man on TV talk about "where are the dads?" or "why are they so violent?" Fix your shit, my white friends. Fix it.

Every criticism that gets leveled at Black families is indistinguishable from the same traits in White families, from where we sit.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Ut oh . . .

Looks like Rand Paul just got his ass served to him on a silver platter.

[cali]

2. yep. Yes, it's a broad brush, but it's so damned prevailent

that that brush is appropriate

[get the red out]

3. Very true

I am white, and I grew up in an all white small town and have always been mystified that certain assumptions are made of black families, when I saw so many white people exemplifying everything those racist assumptions entailed.

[Novara]

4. Damn straight

[dangin]

5. What's worse...

Is they vote republican.

[mainer]

7. Asian Americans vote Democrat

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/03/19/why-do-asian-americans-mostly-vote-for-democrats/

[IronLionZion]

8. split

just like the whites. We don't all vote as a unified block.

[Recursion]

9. Dash is South Asian, which is a pretty heavily Democratic population

I think the East Asian community is split roughly evenly, but other than Dinesh D'Souza and two unfortunate Southern governors, the Diaspora is pretty heavily Democratic.

[IronLionZion]

6. Focusing on the worst in another group

but the best in one's own group, is the foundation of every type of bigotry.